The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word LAUNDRY
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More clues leading to the result LAUNDRY
- Country railway bringing in uniform for washing
- Washing wet, it’s inferred, after liquid added for starters
- Washing one left around, possibly wet?
- Washing, initially limp and wet?
- Where they wash French articles without water
- Professional restorers clean up nude, Roy missing odd bits
- Where they wash and air French articles first
- Note damp wash
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The straight part
We know that "Washing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case washing = laundry.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does LAUNDRY mean?
LAUNDRY noun- A laundering; a washing.
- A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
- That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.